Sustainability

Once Stage Four and Stage Three COVID19 restrictions are relaxed, many of us will be desperately keen to immerse ourselves in natural environments outside Melbourne. Perhaps you have enjoyed day bushwalks in the past but would like to try overnight or multi-day bushwalks? If you have been unsure where to start and how to prepare for these walks, this class is for you!
Bushwalks of two days or more duration have several benefits over day walks. These enable you to experience sights and habitats that are outside the reach of day walkers, such as Refuge Cove in Wilson’s Promontory National Park, Major Mitchell Plateau in the Grampians Gariwerd National Park and remote parts of the Alpine National Park, just to name a few. Then there’s the famous and wonderful Overland Track in Tasmania. Sleeping and eating under the stars away from cars and other signs of civilization is a liberating experience!

Bee a Pollinator! Learn about Native Bee’s and how this promotes biodiversity in your own backyard. Learn how to spot a native bee, their important role in pollinating your garden veggies and how to create the ultimate native bee paradise in your garden for these intriguing little pollinators.

Learn to make and use your own natural, effective cleaning products from simple and easily accessible ingredients. It’s cheap; it’s fun; it’s good for you, your people, pets and the environment; and (wait for it) 

IT WORKS!

Green Cleaning is a vastly more sustainable and safe approach to tackle that mother of household chores … cleaning. Using the most simple and accessible of materials, a little creativity, some very basic scientific explanation, and guaranteed NO extra elbow grease we will have you knocking over the housework with time to get down to barefoot bowls and extra money in your pocket for a round! Did I mention NO EXTRA ELBOW GREASE?

Learn to make fresh, affordable, simple skin care that works!  

The kicker – all ingredients can be found in your pantry, fridge and garden.  Yes, your kitchen is a cosmetics lab and YOU NEVER KNEW IT! 

A DIY workshop that will teach you how to turn simple fridge and pantry items, into natural, effective cosmetics, for you and friends, for health and wellness, for animals, for your back pocket and the environment. 

Humanity has never been as powerful as it is today. But as our power to create grows, so too does our power to destroy. And worse, the severity of the consequences of our mistakes also increases.

From more realistic scenarios such as climate change and nuclear war, to more theoretical situations such as a ‘grey goo’ disaster, this class will explore the most dire of threats facing humanity and what we can do to save the world from them.

Macramé, or the art of knotting, is having a swift revival since the 70s. It’s easy, affordable, you don’t need any tools and can spice up any room with a wall art or planter. Instead of making our planters with rope, we’ll also be learning how to make your own t-shirt yarn so you can turn those daggy old t-shirts into gorgeous macramé planters. Learn two skills in one fun class!

This is a very simple class to create your own homemade cloth face mask with a slot for filter. Learning how to make a face mask doesn’t have to be complicated. You won’t have to work from a complex face mask pattern, you don’t even need to own a sewing machine. We will make a homemade, non-medical face mask which you can make from your choice of fabric – make it as plain or as patterned as you like.

You can also make the mask using a sewing machine after the class to speed up the process.

Bee a Pollinator! Learn about Native Bee’s and how this promotes biodiversity in your own backyard. Learn how to spot a native bee, their important role in pollinating your garden veggies and how to create the ultimate native bee paradise in your garden for these intriguing little pollinators.

This is a very simple class to create your own homemade cloth face mask with a slot for filter. Learning how to make a face mask doesn’t have to be complicated. You won’t have to work from a complex face mask pattern, you don’t even need to own a sewing machine. We will make a homemade, non-medical face mask which you can make from your choice of fabric – make it as plain or as patterned as you like.

You can also make the mask using a sewing machine after the class to speed up the process.

Origami is the art of paper folding, deriving from Japanese words ori (folding) and kami (paper). Join us and learn how to make the most traditional shape: the crane as well as fun lucky stars. After we have learnt how to fold them we’ll design our own mobile with twigs or branches and get lots of tips and tricks to make your mobile pop.